internet hunt
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Internet-based scavenger hunt.
noun
A collective search for a person by Internet users; attempted doxxing.
Example Sentences
- "Mr Giles says he is honoured that Mr Lockwood, a friend and co-worker, chose him for the first internet hunt — even if Mr Lockwood had to grab his rifle and finish off that wild hog after Mr Giles's first shot didn't quite do the job."
- "The next internet hunt is scheduled for April 9. Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope."
- "During an Internet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow."
- "The bill also bans hosting an Internet hunt, enabling someone else to hunt through the Internet, and importing, exporting or possessing wildlife that's been killed by an Internet hunt."
- "One, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, called for an "Internet hunt for the immoral foreigner" and called repeatedly for the man to be "found and kicked out of China!!!""
- "Naked shark straddler sparks internet hunt"